by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
Hat Tip: Sefton Bergson
In
the course of his visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority next
week, as a matter of protocol, Pope Francis, the most senior figure in
the Catholic Church, is scheduled to
meet with Israel's two chief rabbis as well as the most senior
religious figure in the PA, the Mufti Sheikh Muhammad Hussein. What Pope
Francis may not be aware of, is that the Mufti has an ongoing record of
vicious Antisemitic hate speech, which has been
condemned internationally. In 2012, the Mufti preached that it is
Muslim destiny to kill the Jews. On another occasion, in the Al-Aqsa
Mosque, he taught that Jews were "enemies of Allah," and in another
speech he said that the souls of suicide bombers "tell
us to follow in their path."
In
his 2012 speech at a Fatah celebration in East Jerusalem, the Mufti
linked the extermination of Jews to "Palestine," and claimed
that Israelis know this religious war, "Jihad," is coming and are
trying to protect themselves by planting a special tree that will hide
them from Muslims when they come to kill them.
Moderator at Fatah ceremony: "Our war with the descendants of the apes and pigs
(i.e., Jews) is a war of religion and faith. Long Live Fatah! [I invite you,] our honorable Sheikh."
Palestinian Authority Mufti Muhammad Hussein: "47
years ago the [Fatah] revolution started. Which revolution? The modern
revolution of the Palestinian people's history. In fact, Palestine in
its entirety is a revolution,
since [Caliph] Umar came [to conquer Jerusalem, 637 CE], and continuing today, and until the End of Days. The reliable Hadith (tradition attributed to Muhammad), in the two reliable collections, Bukhari and Muslim, says:
since [Caliph] Umar came [to conquer Jerusalem, 637 CE], and continuing today, and until the End of Days. The reliable Hadith (tradition attributed to Muhammad), in the two reliable collections, Bukhari and Muslim, says:
'The Hour [of Resurrection] will not come until you fight the Jews.
The Jew will hide behind stones or trees.
Then the stones or trees will call:
'Oh Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.'
Except the Gharqad tree [which will keep silent].'
Therefore
it is no wonder that you see Gharqad [trees] surrounding the [Israeli]
settlements and colonies. [Gharqad trees] surrounding,
surrounding and surrounding. That's the Palestine we are talking about,
with the beginning of the Jihad and the continuation of the Jihad with
the struggle and the procession of the Martyrs." [Official PA TV, Jan.
9, 2012]
It
is unknown whether the Mufti knew in advance that the moderator would
refer to the Jews as "descendants of monkeys and pigs,"
and declare that the Palestinian - Israel conflict "is a war of
religion and faith." However - as can be seen in the video - the Mufti
did not hesitate, retract or condemn the statement, asserting
instead that Palestinians are destined to exterminate the Jews.
When Palestinian
Media Watch publicized this hate
speech, the Mufti's words were condemned by Israel's Prime Minister
Netanyahu, the British Foreign Office, the European Union and many
others. (See condemnations of the Mufti's hate speech below.)
In another speech, the Mufti praised numerous suicide bombers who had murdered Israeli civilians as an "elite group of Martyrs." He added an explicit call to murder: "The souls of the noble Martyrs envelop us, and their souls tell us to follow in their path." [Official PA TV, May 31, 2012]
In another sermon the Mufti called the Jews "enemies
of Allah" who "have even deviated from their humanity." [Al-Aqsa Mosque forum, June 25, 2010]
The Mufti also promotes hatred by rejecting Jewish rights in Jerusalem by
denying that a Temple ever existed in Jerusalem:
"In
truth, there never was a Temple in any period, nor was there, at any
time, any place of worship for the Jews or others at the
Al-Aqsa Mosque site (built on the Temple Mount, 705 CE)." [Official PA
TV, Jan. 5, 2012]
In
addition, the Mufti makes a point of publicly rejecting Christian
tradition, teaching that Jesus was not a Judean, but a Palestinian
who preached Islam.
Click to view the Mufti calling Jesus
"a Palestinian par excellence" and claiming that Jesus and his
mother Mary were Palestinians.
The Mufti has also issued religious rulings presenting
women as subservient to their husbands, declaring on PA TV that "in
general, a woman must [only] leave home at the discretion of her
husband," and that a woman must not refuse her husband's demand to have
sexual relations:
"It's his right [to have sex]... it is his right. This woman may not and has
no right to deny him this right, especially during the permissible time, which is nighttime." [Official PA TV, Aug. 12, 2012]
Clearly,
the Mufti's preaching of Antisemitic and genocidal ideology will
destroy any chance for peace. As long as Jews are portrayed as Allah's
enemies destined to be killed by
Palestinians, peace talks are irrelevant. Adjusting a border or signing
a peace treaty will not erase the stigma attached to the Jews by the
PA's most senior religious leader.
In
spite of the Mufti's call to exterminate Jews and the subsequent
international condemnations, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas did not remove
the Mufti from his office, nor did he demand
a retraction.
Palestinian Media Watch is
confident that the Pope, a symbol of peace and tolerance, will not
knowingly honor a Palestinian
religious leader who promotes hatred and intolerance. PMW is confident
that should Pope Francis choose to meet with the PA Mufti, he will do
his utmost to impress on the Palestinian religious leader the necessity
of retracting his promotion of genocide of
Jews by Palestinians and the abhorrent nature of those opinions.
The following are a few of the condemnations of the Mufti's hate speech that were expressed immediately after PMW publicized
his speech in 2012.
EU statement condemns hate speech by Jerusalem Mufti:
EU statement condemns hate speech by Jerusalem Mufti:
"The EU missions in Jerusalem and Ramallah condemn the Mufti of Jerusalem's inflammatory speech on January 9 at a rally marking
the 47th anniversary of Fatah's founding...
In
line with Article 20 of the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights, the EU firmly rejects 'any advocacy of national,
racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to
discrimination, hostility or violence'."
[http://bit.ly/1qRwgW6 , Jan. 28, 2012]
British Minister for the Middle East Alistair Burt condemns Mufti's hate speech:
"I
condemn the inflammatory words used by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and
others at a recent event marking the 47th anniversary
of the Fatah movement. To refer to the Jewish people in such a way and
to talk of killing Jews is anti-semitism, pure and simple."
[http://bit.ly/1p8P4vm, Jan. 23, 2012]
Excerpt from the Associated Press on the Mufti's statements:
"The Palestinians' top Muslim cleric faced sharp Israeli criticism Sunday for a speech in which he quoted a religious text that
includes passages about killing Jews in an end-of-days struggle."
[Associated Press, Jan. 22, 2012]
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Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
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1 comment:
The Pope is sure to know all this very well. He is a well informed politician.
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